Manuel Pellegrini He wants more. Much more. He knows his team is in good shape this season and has settled in Fifth place From LaLiga with 20 points added, in a good position in the standings European League He awaits his opponent today in the second round … Subordinate King’s Cup. But he also realizes that he has a good chance of climbing the step closer to fighting for the champions’ zone, although Villarreal and Atletico are making it really difficult at a hellish pace. And that speed is what he suggested his team faces these days with a clear challenge: verb conjugation wins repeatedly in a key month. He did so in the pre-match talk against Olympique Lyonnais when he showed his great ambition by asking the team to make an effort within specific deadlines.
The Chilean gathered his players as he usually does in a circle before training in the Luis del Sol Sports City, not only to give indications of what he wants at each moment, but to send his own mental messages in the face of what has happened or what is to come, a reflection or As a challenge. In this sense, it was strong, which caught the group’s attention, considering that it targeted six matches. Betis’ next schedule will be between that confrontation against the French bloc and the one he will play next December 4 against Barcelona at Cartuja Stadium.
“We have to win the next six games. We have a great opportunity to make this leap, which is why we must demand of ourselves individually and collectively. “Winning these matches is the challenge we have to face as a group,” Pellegrini referred to his team at various stages of his speech. He was referring to the fixtures against Olympique Lyonnais (home, Europa League), Valencia (away, La Liga), Girona (home, La Liga), Utrecht (home, Europa League), Sevilla (away, La Liga) and the second round of the Copa del Rey (away, with the opposition known this morning). An example of the coach’s ambition. For this season.
Betic’s group was able to reciprocate their coach in the continental match at home with a score of 2-0 but was unable to continue in the Mestalla. In any case, Pellegrini maintains his bet after this match, and the challenge remains for his team to maintain the momentum for fourth place, which it now has. Five points ahead of Atletico Madrid. They know that by beating Girona and Sevilla, they can move up the points in that region and that a win over Utrecht practically guarantees their presence in the next round of the Europa League with plenty of options to make it into the top eight and thus avoid playing in the last 32. And a pass in the cup is a must.
Pellegrini has always indicated in his matches that they will go to all areas to win, but in this case the highlight is that he challenged the team with a time horizon so that the goal could be grouped in a specific section. Then, at the end of the confrontation in the Mestalla, he continued his speech and his demand: “We have a clear policy and the players also share it. We always go out to win the game at any stadium we enter. I hope we maintain this game policy to strive, whether at home or away, to achieve the best We always want to win».
Pressure before Barcelona
Moreover, this pressure preceding the visit of Barcelona is what the club Bitic intends to collect points, and it is also expected that the team’s losses will be Amrabat, Abd and Bakambu As for the African Cup, it may affect the group’s rotation during some matches in December and January so as not to be late in that competitive period.
Betis’ goal, as has been said on other occasions, is to fight for Champions League places until the final days if the four teams with the biggest budgets can open up options to make a jump up the table and aspire to something more than the Europa League. The management of Pellegrini’s dressing room is fundamental to being able to set these goals in a season in which the club wanted to raise the tone of ambition, something that both the players and the coach himself followed with the clear idea of climbing that step that would allow significant economic progress in the entity.
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